Bivalvia - Cardiida - Anthracosiidae
Full reference: C. T. Trechmann. 1917. The Trias of New Zealand. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 73(3):165-246
Belongs to Anodontophora according to C. T. Trechmann 1917
Sister taxa: Unionites albertii, Unionites bittneri, Unionites borealis, Unionites breviformis, Unionites brevis, Unionites canalensis, Unionites donacinus, Unionites elisabethae, Unionites fassaensis, Unionites gregarius, Unionites griesbachi, Unionites guizhouensis, Unionites jacobi, Unionites kobyumensis, Unionites letticus, Unionites manmuensis, Unionites minimus, Unionites muensteri, Unionites ovalis, Unionites posterus, Unionites rhomboidalis, Unionites sorokovi, Unionites spicatus, Unionites subrectus, Unionites trapezoidalis, Myacites baconicus, Myacites faba, Myacites obtusus, Myacites radiatus, Myacites grandis, Myacites musculoides, Myacites depressus, Myacites (Pleuromya), Myacites inconspicuus, Anodontophora angulata, Anodontophora telleri, Anodontophora sublettica, Anodontophora elongata, Anodontophora omolonica, Anodontophora purdoni, Anodontophora conjugens, Anodontophora subovalis, Anoplophora torreana, Anoplophora isocardioides, Anoplophora pappi, Anoplophora shastensis, Anoplophora recta, Anoplophora liasokeuperina
Type specimen: Its type locality is Otamita Stream (Bed "C"), which is in a Carnian marine shale in New Zealand
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of New Zealand (1 collection), Peru (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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